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Acorns

 

 

The acorns ripen and spill down from the oaks. Valuable food for wild boars, badgers, mice ... Moreover winter stock that keeps well – for squirrels and, among birds, for nutcrackers, woodpeckers and the greatest propagators of oaks, the jays.

 

According to botanists indeed only the pedunculate or English oak grows in Estonia; it has two forms, distinguished by their spring-time leafing time. Our ancestors made their distinction in late autumn: so-called summer oak, that dropped its leaves in autumn, and widow oak or iron oak, that retained its leaves even in winter.